Edge Groups
Now you can select several vertices and give them a name and set it as a group of vertices, the same is for faces. Add the same for the edges. Sometimes it is useful to have a quick selection of a set of faces to quickly select them.
Now you can select several vertices and give them a name and set it as a group of vertices, the same is for faces. Add the same for the edges. Sometimes it is useful to have a quick selection of a set of faces to quickly select them.
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Blender could use a better selection system, but I am afraid the face maps will be gone soon ( projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/105317 ) in favor off generic attributes. Currently, you can create custom selections or values per edge to be used in GN, but I don't think you can get a "selection" back from the value. Maybe a better interface to create/assign/retrieve attributes would solve this problem. Perhaps even the use of this attributes in other modifiers, the same way vertex group are used should work.
Whats amazing about edge groups would be if they can be used with bevel modifier. So we can have multiple bevel modifiers with varying widths and segments
Vertex groups are slow and should be removed and replaced by general attribute selection system that is faster, easier to edit and is compatible with Geometry Nodes. Same goes for manual edge and face selection.
this has been discussed many times even i asked for this in blender today live youtube from pablo and he agree with that but maybe this is not their priority for now.